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The Wicked Wager

( A Regency Murder Mystery & Romance )

by Anya Wylde

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The infamous rake, Lord Richard Hamilton, has finally chosen his bride—the very appropriate Miss Emma Grey. The ton approves, Lord Grey is pleased, Lady Grey delighted, and Emma is over the moon, but her uncle, (the blasted) Duke of Arden opposes the match, and Emma is ordered to move to the duke’s estate to think things over. Richard Hamilton refuses to take things lying down and concocts a plan. A plan that should have brought the lovers together and had them married within a month. It was a simple matter of masquerading as the duke’s gardener, compromising the lady, and then having the duke rush them off to Gretna Green. Alas, he underestimates the duke’s intelligence and the tangled situation on the estate—never had he imagined that compromising a lady could be so difficult. His endeavours lead to a comedy of errors, charades, and knotty love affairs. Yet he forges ahead in spite of pesky house guests, a flea bitten mattress, his lovesick best friend, and a blackmailer. Just when things seem to be going well, someone is murdered (very inconvenient), and he happens to be one of the suspects (extremely inconvenient). His simple plan for winning the wager suddenly becomes … a tad complicated.

Amy Corwin, Linda Rae Sande, Wendy Vella & Anya Wylde

TEMPTING HIS MISTRESS Samantha HoltWhat could possibly induce at woman to follow in the footsteps of her mother and further sully her reputation by becoming a mistress?

TO TAME A HIGHLAND EARL Tarah ScottMiss Eve Crenshaw wishes to marry for love. When London’s most notorious rakehell breaks into her bedchamber in the dead of night and ruins her, she plans a daring elopement that shocks even the earl.

LADY STAR Claudy ConnNever, in all her twenty years of life, had Star Berkley seen the likes of Sir Edward. He was so damned arrogant, so damned fashionable, and so damned insolent—and he was the most handsome man she had ever come across!

THE UNWANTED HEIRESS Amy CorwinAn American heiress nobody wants; a duke every woman desires; and a murder no one expects. Some nights just don’t go as planned.

THE KISS OF A VISCOUNT Linda Rae SandeA kiss is just a kiss … or is it? George-Bennett Jones finds himself in love with Lady Elizabeth. His competition for her hand is the blond, blue-eyed Gabriel Wellingham. George has been tutored by his mistress, though, and employs the rules he has learned in an attempt to gain the upper hand in his quest for Elizabeth’s hand.

TEMPTING MISS ALLENDER Wendy VellaSeven years after her disastrous debut, Miss Patience Allender has reluctantly returned to society. No longer the meek, mild Miss, she will never again allow a man to humiliate her. However, Patience’s resolve is severely tested when she comes face-to-face, with the very man who shattered her heart.

PENELOPE Anya WyldeLeaving behind the rural charms of Finnshire, Miss Penelope Fairweather arrives in London with hope in her heart and a dream in her eye.

Knight Winds

Medieval Boxed Anthology

by Allie Mackay, Tarah Scott, Ashley York,

Màiri Norris, Melanie Karsak & L.L. Muir

HIGHLANDER IN HER DREAMS Allie MackayAfter stepping through a magical gateway, Kira Bedwell finds herself in fourteenth century Scotland, face-to-face with Aidan MacDonald, the irresistible Highlander who has visited her in dreams. As their romance transcends to reality, it will take all of their courage and will for their love to survive beyond time itself…

CLAIMED Tarah ScottTalbot expects to find a hostile woman in the Scottish heiress Edward commands him to marry. Instead, he discovers a Highland beauty worthy of a man’s respect…and love. Talbot will do anything to win her acceptance—except the one thing she demands: betray his king and embrace his Scottish heritage.

THE SAXON BRIDE Ashley YorkRowena Godwinson is a Saxon princess and refuses to go willingly into a forced marriage to one of King William’s most favored knights. Falling prey to rumors of Norman depravity, she fears being forced to suffer the ultimate humiliation of being shared by his men. John of Normandy is a soldier made for battle, ingrained with chivalry and a deep sense of loyalty to his mentor and king. Serving his liege is all the reward he requires and neither a title nor a bride tempts him. The challenge of winning over a bunch of heathen Saxons and the crazed woman they serve only deepens his determination to remove himself from England.

Returning five years later to find a woman passionate enough to satisfy his deepest, unspoken desire fills him with the need to make his wife see him as more than an armed foe. Can he win her over before she learns her own father died at his hand? Rowena’s struggle against enemy occupation fades away in the pleasurable arms of her Norman husband but will he bring her people to their knees in his attempts to please his liege lord? Or can she win him over to the Saxon’s side even while one of her own plots to overthrow the bastard king?

ROSE of HOPE Màiri NorrisHer sentence is death.

Evil turns the life of Ysane Wulfsingas, a woman of gentleness and peace, into a nightmare that drives her to murder. When a new enemy, the fearsome knight Fallard D’Auvrecher, charges headlong into her life intent on picking up where her former husband left off, her only defense is to guard well her heart.

Captain Fallard D’Auvrecher holds the opportunity of a lifetime within his hand. To keep it, he must rescue Ysane Wulfsingas from execution, for the beautiful Rose of Wulfsinraed is the key to all he has fought for as a knight of King William. Fallard must conquer not only the rebel commander who desires Wulfsinraed for himself, but also the demesne’s serenely obstinate mistress.

Though he has waged countless battles, Fallard soon learns the greatest challenge of all is the fight for the lady’s heart.

HIGHLAND RAVEN Melanie KarsakScotland, 1026—Gruoch, descendant of the line of MacAlpin, should have been born into a life of ease. But fate is fickle. Her father’s untimely death, rumored to have been plotted by King Malcolm, leaves her future uncertain and stained by the prophecy that she will avenge her family line. Haunted by dreams of a raven-haired man she’s never met, Gruoch soon feels her fate is not her own. She is duty-bound to wed a powerful lord, if not the Prince himself; however, she’s not sure she can stop her heart when she meets Banquo, a gallant highlander and druid.

ISOBELLE by L.L. MuirGaspar Dragotti is content to hide behind the mask of God’s Dragon until a fiery Scotswoman, Isobelle Ross, bursts into his life. He believes his thick scales can protect him while he bends her to his will, but he is sorely mistaken. No matter what barriers he puts between them, she is able to touch his icy heart.

The question is—which one of them will be burned?

Highland Rogues

1000 pages of Scottish Romance

by Tarah Scott

To Tame a Highland EarlA man torn between two worlds. Both need him… neither wants him. Groomed for a life amongst the English aristocracy, Lord Erroll Rushton is unexpectedly thrust back into his father’s Scottish world when the Englishwoman he compromises refuses to marry him.

No gentleman breaks into a lady’s bedchamber…but then, no lady sleeps with a pistol under her pillow. Miss Eve Crenshaw will marry for love or won’t marry at all. When London’s most notorious rakehell breaks into Eve’s bedroom in the dead of night and compromises her beyond repair, she plans a daring elopement that shocks even the earl. Blurb, reviews snippets –

ClaimedTalbot expects to find a hostile woman in the Scottish heiress Edward commands him to marry. Instead, he discovers a Highland beauty worthy of a man’s respect…and love. Talbot will do anything to win her acceptance—except the one thing she demands: betray his king and embrace his Scottish heritage.

My Highland LordLondon Heiress kidnapped by the Marquess of Ashlund, read the headlines. Yet no one tried to save her.

Phoebe Wallington was seven years old when a mass assassination attempt rocked Regency England. Her father was the only accused traitor to elude capture. Now as a grown woman and a British spy, she is no closer to learning what really happened that day.

Phoebe’s quest for the truth takes a sudden turn when she’s kidnapped by suspected traitor Kiernan MacGregor, the Marquess of Ashlund. However, Kiernan may not live long enough to stand trial. Someone wants him dead…and Phoebe stands in the killer’s way. The only way to save her reputation and protect Kiernan is to marry him.

Lord Grayson’s BrideNicholas Spencer, Earl of Grayson, won’t make the same mistake twice and let Josephine Knightly go. She loves him. He felt it in their one kiss before he left, and in the single kiss she allowed since his return. But she’s doing everything in her power to sabotage the marriage even before it’s begun. Nicholas doesn’t care. If Hell is where he must live to have her, then she must stand by his side in the fire.

Lord Ruthven’s Bride Love is always sweetest the first time around… A harmless attraction leads to a friendship that forces Lady Annabelle to choose between the two men who love her. One saved her from a killer. The other is her future husband. James Waterson, newly titled Viscount Ruthven, is hunting a killer. When Lady Annabelle steps into the killer’s sights, James will do everything in his power to protect her. Even if that means letting her go.